A pretrial hearing for Randolph Brinkman was postponed Thursday so he could be assigned an attorney.

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Prosecutors said Brinkman had farm animals in cages and loose at his Morning View trailer, some dead, others alive but with little to no food or water.

The animals ranged from rabbits and turkeys to a pony, prosecutors said.

Brinkman is charged with 175 counts of animal cruelty and five counts of cultivating marijuana.

The seized animals have been adopted out or put down if necessary.

"We had a lot of people with farms that were able to pull together and we divided up all of these animals and they were gone," Kenton Co. Animal Control officer Dan Evans said. "When we got the order and judgement on July 20, when we had custody of the animals, they were gone by that afternoon."

Brinkman told officers he showed the animals at county fairs. He will return to court on Oct. 4.